Zach Hill, Big Red Cat, 2022, charcoal, wax & colored pencil, paper, flocking, wood, 42" x 27" x 3"
Zach Hill, Coat of Arms, 2022, peacock and ostrich feather, steel, epoxy, resin, flocking, paint, 64” x 16” x 26”
Zach Hill, Coat of Arms (detail), 2022, peacock and ostrich feather, steel, epoxy, resin, flocking, paint, 64” x 16” x 26”
Zach Hill, Red Composition 2, 2022, charcoal, wax & colored pencil, paper, flocking, wood, 21" x 27" x 3"
Zach Hill, WANDA, 2022, cast resin, plastic pearl, metal alloy, 14" x 7" x 6"
Brice Peterson, Sr. Anthony's Bequest, 2022, found objects, polymer clay, plastic eggs, artificial turf carpet, shelf, 12 x 11 x 20 in
Brice Peterson, Better the Devil You Know, 2022, plastic playhouse and fingers, artificial turf carpet, enamel, satin, 36 x 45 x 50 in
Brice Peterson, You Stole My Goddamn House, 2022, toner transfer on polymer clay, acrylic, brass nails, 8 x 7.5 in
Brice Peterson, Better the Devil You Know, 2022, plastic playhouse and fingers, artificial turf carpet, enamel, satin, 36 x 45 x 50 in
Catch and Release
Zach Hill and Brice Peterson
March 8 - April 2, 2022
Peep is pleased to announce Catch and Release, a two-person exhibition with recent work by Philadelphia-based artists Zach Hill and Brice Peterson. Both artists play with a queer sense of function in their work through processes of assemblage and embellishment.
Zach Hill’s uncanny combinations of materials, examine the ways in which LGBTQ folks instinctively communicate and protect one another across geographies often ruled by fear and censorship. His process of assemblage centers misuse and mimesis to reconfigure furniture parts, tripods, cords, and found glass or metal. Hill references city infrastructures, the human figure, and familiar tools or machines. These forms are twisted into freestanding compositions that actively misbehave.
Using found objects from domestic life and images appropriated from celebrity culture, Brice Peterson’s work examines a masochistic relationship with consumerism. In the resulting sculptures, prints, and assembled objects, the private sphere of the home is a site of identification with--and surrendering to--mass-produced consumables, whether toiletries, toys, or TV shows. The home having been violated by the product, the consumer becomes an exhibitionist of brand aesthetics, a submissive vehicle of manufactured nostalgia.
Zach Hill (b. 1992, Kansas) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator working between sculpture, moving image, and performance in Philadelphia, PA. He has been awarded the Mary L. Nohl Fellowship and Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship along with residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Bunker Projects, and RAIR. His work has been exhibited and screened at Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI; Frontera Garibaldi, Mexico City, MX; High Tide, Philadelphia, PA; Skylab Gallery, Columbus, Ohio; Studio 10, Brooklyn, NY; Comfort Station, Chicago, IL; James Black, Vancouver, CAN; and VisArts, Rockville, MD. Hill holds a BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Haverford College.
Brice Peterson (b. 1989, New Jersey) is an artist and librarian based in Philadelphia whose work examines the limits of nostalgia and fandom as methods of queer identification with mass culture. He is a recent graduate of Cornell University's MFA program, where he received the Charles Baskerville Painting award. Recent group exhibitions include: Idol Worship, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn; Or High Water, Safe Gallery, Brooklyn; and Pinch Point, Cornell University, Ithaca, among other shows in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New Orleans. He holds a BA from Brown University, where he received the Ann Belsky-Moranis Award in Visual Art. Brice has also been an artist in residence at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO, the Post-Contemporary in Troy, NY, and the Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY, and an apprentice at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. He is currently the library director at Rosemont College in Bryn Mawr, PA.